Itβs impossible to know how much collateral damage their selfish and reckless choice will wreak. We'd never have eradicated polio or smallpox if the same anti-vax movement had existed 50 or 60 years ago. And we may never eradicate COVID because of them today.
Rather than acknowledge the life-saving value of these vaccines, they're obsessed with irrelevant arguments over personal freedoms and consumed with a moronic distrust of experts. They put their faith in pseudoscience and callous politicians who play them for the suckers they are
I wrote much of LOST IMMUNITY, a cautionary tale about vaccine hesitancy, before COVID. In it, I paint anti-vaxxers as well-meaning and thoughtful, though misguided. Now, 8 months after the emergence of the safest, most effective vaccines ever, I REGRET my charitable portrayal.